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Four of 8 monkeys were successfully trained on an identity matching-to-sample task employing two acoustic stimuli. In five subsequent tests with different pairs of auditory stimuli, their performances were at levels that provided strong evidence for concept-mediated transfer. Thus, despite past failures to demonstrate the matching concept in the auditory modality, the present results indicate that the matching concept is not limited in monkeys to the visual modality. On the other hand, the failure of 4 subjects to learn the initial matching task constitutes additional evidence of cognitive asymmetry in monkeys with regard to the visual and auditory modalities.
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This research was supported by NSF Grants 8207146 and 8417383. Incomplete results from three subjects were briefly described at the XXIII International Congress of Psychology held in 1984, in Acapulco, Mexico (D’Amato & Colombo, 1985).
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03200060.
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D’Amato, M.R., Colombo, M. Auditory matching-to-sample in monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Learning & Behavior 13, 375–382 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03208013
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